Reading and Critical Thinking Skills in ELT Classes of Turkish Students

Critical thinking provides correct thinking in order to make use of relevant and reliable knowledge about the world. We believe students should become aware of the importance of imagination, decision-making and other higher-order thinking skills which will help them become critical and creative employees. Thus, this study investigates whether or not ELT students could benefit from the critical reading course lasting one semester and improve some critical thinking skills. For this purpose, various lesson plans aiming to improve the critical reading strategies were prepared and implanted. During the implications of the lesson plans, using different data collection tools such as rubrics, interviews, observations, we obtained data taking one semester on a regular basis.